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by vmilner 4y ago
Thanks - as I suspected, one of those seems to be "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" where "The Dancing Men" story needs the illustration to make the story understandable.
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by vmilner 4y ago
In general, I love the format, however I notice that (for example), Hugh Lofting's "The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle" has none of Lofting's illustrations - which seems a shame in a children's book - is this a deliber
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by vmilner 4y ago
Memories of classical mechanics lectures reading a scruffy blackboard from 50 feet away trying to work out whether that’s two Newton-style differentiation dots or only one...
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by vmilner 4y ago
I haven’t seen this use of “obligate” before. I’m not sure I’ve understood the nuances of its meaning from the context. (If I delete all the occurrences of the word, the article appears to have the same meaning)
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by vmilner 4y ago
I’m glad they gave their book award to “How to think about Abstract Algebra” by Lara Alcock Having dipped into it I’d massively recommend it to anyone about to start a maths degree (or just interested in groups, rings, fields generally).
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by vmilner 4y ago
Why is Facebook/Twitter etc so obsessed with ambiguous maths operations questions???
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by vmilner 4y ago
He also liked "Advanced Calculus" by Woods (possibly not for his first calculus text, but it happened to be six inches from my hand as I read this.)
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by vmilner 4y ago
I discovered Martin Gardner's Scientific American column collections in the local (UK) library as a schoolboy in the early 80s. This got me thinking about topological ideas, and hypercubes for instance, almost without realising it was
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by vmilner 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Quantum_Mech...
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by vmilner 5y ago
I love your Land of Lisp song :-)
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by vmilner 5y ago
I'm pleased Tolkien's image of the Book of Mazarbul is there, I'm currently reading Humphrey Carpenter's biography and there's a mention of the fact that Tolkien painstakingly created the look of the final page, but
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by vmilner 5y ago
Some links to Grace Martin's books here - which include the French editions of her math TutorTexts: https://www.google.co.uk/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22...
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by vmilner 5y ago
Judging from this one - I think these are the series you remember: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/Principes-d%C3%A9lectricit%C3%A9-...
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by vmilner 5y ago
There is a picture of the French edition of the algebra one here: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22497336...
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by vmilner 5y ago
Well, the chess one is still in print: https://www.amazon.co.uk/CHESS-COMPLETE-SELF-TUTOR-Self-Tuto... and i can see several of the others on secondhand sites (eg ABE books) for varying prices, but often not too expensive,
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by vmilner 5y ago
Possibly "TutorTexts" https://gamebooks.org/Series/457/Show I had Lasker's chess one as a school prize - it was awesome.
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by vmilner 5y ago
Yes - I had one with a v similar keyboard (well, a Spectrum+ 128K) in 1987 - I felt absolutely no nostalgia for the rubber keys!
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by vmilner 5y ago
> If anyone hasn't seen Micro Men, on the Sinclair vs Acorn rivalry, its definitely worth a watch: That is one of the funniest things I've ever seen - you can tell the main cast are having an absolute blast. BBC Four at its bes
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by vmilner 5y ago
Error correction fans will enjoy this talk: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/error-control
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by vmilner 5y ago
"Gravity" won seven Oscars.
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by vmilner 5y ago
This is Scotland, which has a separate legal system (and more authoritarian speech-limiting laws than England.)
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by vmilner 5y ago
I really like the "placement exam" in this, that tells you where your weaknesses are and what to focus on. I feel like this is the kind of tool I want when someone says "I suck at X".
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by vmilner 5y ago
It does seem amazing - I can imagine a lone author getting scared and settling for this - but not Netflix!
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by vmilner 5y ago
The complaint reads: "When Conan Doyle came back to Holmes in the Copyrighted Stories between 1923 and 1927, it was no longer enough that the Holmes character was the most brilliant rational and analytical mind. Holmes needed to be hum
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by vmilner 5y ago
Yes - that's why I didn't link to it myself - but it may help to find the audio elsewhere.
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by vmilner 5y ago
I think the projects are larger - or at least move from small ones like quines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing) ) to large ones writing simple compilers. Good (accurate) review at: http://www
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by vmilner 5y ago
"Etudes for Programmers" is such a brilliant book. I first came across it 1991: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL4546158M/Etudes_for_Programm...
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by vmilner 5y ago
Yes - the Sentinel was particularly good too. They have very gentle background effects that work perfectly.
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by vmilner 5y ago
This was absolutely brilliantly read on BBC radio by the actor John Shrapnel some years ago (with 4 other stories from "The Nine Billion Names of God" collection). Unfortunately I can't find a link to it.
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by vmilner 5y ago
I think the best children's shows have a slight sense of wistfulness - the ones I loved in my 1970s childhood in the UK were Bagpuss, Mr. Benn and the Charlie Brown shows. The best of the animated Batman shows in the 90s caught that to

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